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Tisvildeleje is the village and coastal part or of the area known as Tisvilde located in on the north coast of the island Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark 60km/40miles north of Copenhagen in the municipal of Helsinge.

The name "Tisvilde" is derived from “dedicated to the God Tyr”: Ti's vælde, hence the name Tisvilde. Tibirke Church was built on the site of a prehistoric “vi” or place of heathen sacrifice at which human victims were offered. At the foot of the church is a spring which may have been the place where pilgrims came in days of old. "Leje" roughly translates as 'plain' and used to be a fishermans village. Now most of the fishermen's houses are used as summer cottages.